Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, Dec 26, 2006 02:56 PM UTC:
Chess is far from dead when it comes down to human beings playing against
other human beings. In regard to computers... yes, the silicon brains, I
believe, do put a very dark cloud on many on-line games [both
correspondance and real-time]. But put 2 players face-to-face in a, tournament hall,
at a chess club, coffee shop, school chess work shop, or at a kitchen table and we
have a great game which I imagine will
continue to be played, as it is now, for a long long time to come.
